# containerd

[containerd] An industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability
Kubespray supports basic functionality for using containerd as the default container runtime in a cluster.

_To use the containerd container runtime set the following variables:_

## k8s_cluster.yml

```yaml
container_manager: containerd
```

## etcd.yml

```yaml
etcd_deployment_type: host
```

## Containerd config

Example: define registry mirror for docker hub

```yaml
containerd_registries:
  "docker.io":
    - "https://mirror.gcr.io"
    - "https://registry-1.docker.io"
```

`containerd_registries` is ignored for pulling images when `image_command_tool=nerdctl`
(the default for `container_manager=containerd`). Use `crictl` instead, it supports
`containerd_registries` but lacks proper multi-arch support (see
[#8375](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubespray/issues/8375)):

```yaml
image_command_tool: crictl
```

[containerd]: https://containerd.io/